“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”
“She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she’d always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.”
“She would die feeling, because that was the way she had always lived.”
“He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.”
“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
“And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories. ”